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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - (1876 book), by Mark Twain cover

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(on Wikipedia)

Something something painting a fence something racism something story of a boy.

After reading The Secret Garden – (1911 book), by Frances Hodgson Burnett I was not about to suffer through another book with an accent conveyed in text.

  • “This Reader’s Digest edition contains the complete text of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, first published in 1976.”
  • Copyright © 1985 Reader’s Digest Association, Inc.
  • Fifth Printing, October 1990
  • ISBN-10 0-89577-217-5
  • I also have a Companion Library book of this, which is a double book alongside

The Art of War cover

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(on Wikipedia)

A military treatise summing up the military experiences prior to and during the mid-Warring States period (475 BC – 221 BC).

Two editions of translations were released, and this publication includes everything:

  1. The 15 chapters of part 1 released in 1985
  2. The additional chapter released in 1985
  3. The 15 chapters from 1975’s Part II, which were excised for that 1985 edition.

If this is what I think it is, then I first read this as The Second Art of War and found it a much better read than its predecessor. I was never able to find a book with that title.

  • aka Sun Bin: The Art of War
  • This is a two-book hardcover which also has the original/earlier The Art of War – (~476 BC book), by Sunzi
  • Published 2000-01-01
  • ISBN-10 7119024124
  • ISBN-13 978-7119024127
  • Note: I’ve read the author died in 310 BC, and I haven’t seen a more accurate date for this book.

    • p.21 – Sunzi and Sun Bin lived more than 160 years apart.
  • Sun Bin (孫臏 · 孙膑)

    • Historians came to call him “Qi Sunzi” (Master Sun of Qi).



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